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Saturday, 5 July 2014

If I go from Saudi Arabia
on exit re-entry visa and don’t come back, can I go to other GCC countries for
purpose?

Question
by Visitor: I am working in Saudi Arabia. Now I got
work offer from Qatar. If I will go to vacation from Saudi Arabia to India and
from India I can directly go to Qatar that is possible? Is there any problem to
take medical and visa stamping time?

Answer
by Steve: You should take final exit from your company in Saudi
Arabia and go back to your country and then start proceedings of work visa in
Qatar.

Comment
by Visitor: Sir if I ask final exit from my company
they will make me banned here in Saudi Arabia because still my contract not yet
finished. In case if they ban me for 3 years or more in Saudi Arabia, I can take
visa and can enter to Qatar.

Answer
by Steve: If you run away from your employer in Saudi Arabia, it
has no impact on working in any other country of the world. You can easily
process your visa for Qatar while you are on vacation.

Comment
by Visitor:

Some people told me if I
go on vacation from Saudi Arabia, I would not be able to enter to any other
gulf country (GCC country) because my visa is open in Saudi Arabia.

If I go on exit re-entry
visa and don’t come back, they will ban me for 3 years. If this is the case,
they would not allow me to enter to GCC countries.

Answer
by Steve

There is no problem so far
in entering to other GCC countries if you violate the contract in Saudi Arabia.
You can easily enter to any other country of the world.!

However, you will be
banned from working in Saudi Arabia for 3 years if your employer complaints
against you.

An
Alarming Case

Hello Steve, my brother
used to work for a company in Saudi Arabia and two years ago he left on exit
re-entry visa and somehow managed to leave the company and the country. After 2
months he applied for another gulf state to find a new job and been detained
and sent back to Saudi Arabia from the airport of that gulf state. They said
that without knowledge of my brother his previous employer had registered a
police case against him of stealing money and run away. Right now he is in
prison. My brother is not like that and we belong to a good family, he did not
steal any money and only sent back his salary for family expenses. We are
stressed and going through very hard times since we contacted his employer they
are not convincing, we told them he didn’t steal any money and we do not have
any money to give to them. We know this is serious allegation and our brother
is innocent. He only left because our mother was ill back home and he didn’t
want to work for them as the company was in a mess. We have no one to get help
from and we are concern about our brother health. The employer visited my
brother and asked him to sign some letters accepting that he has taken the
money in reward of which they will release him. He was innocent enough to do it
and Kafeel never came back to him.

Gulf News has reported
that a plan to ban the deported expatriates from one GCC country from entering
on work visas in any other GCC country has been finalized but not yet
implemented. To know about the status of the implementation, click on this link
“GCC
Wide Ban on Deported Expatriates of GCC Countries”